Dick Latessa

Dick Latessa
Born	Richard Robert Latessa September 15, 1930 (1930-09-15) (age 81) Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Occupation	Stage, film and television actor

Richard Robert "Dick" Latessa (born September 15, 1930) is an American actor.

Latessa was born in Cleveland, Ohio to a mother who was an automotive upholstery maker.^[1] Latessa made his Broadway debut in The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N in 1968. Additional theatre credits include Follies, Rags, The Cherry Orchard, Damn Yankees, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Awake and Sing!, Cabaret, The Will Rogers Follies and Hairspray, for which he won both the Tony and Drama Desk Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical.

Throughout the years he also has been featured in several Neil Simon plays, including Chapter Two, I Ought to Be in Pictures, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound, Rumors, and Proposals. Most recently he features in the 2010 revival of the Burt Bacharach and Hal David musical Promises, Promises, for which Neil Simon wrote the book.

Latessa's screen credits include The Substance of Fire, Alfie, and Stigmata. He has appeared in numerous television movies, including Izzy and Moe, The Trial of Bernhard Goetz, and Pudd'nhead Wilson, and primetime series such Get Smart, Mission: Impossible, Ironside, Spenser: For Hire, The Sopranos, Ed and Law & Order.

References

1. ^ "Dick Latessa Biography". filmreference. 2008. http://www.filmreference.com/film/95/Dick-Latessa.html. Retrieved 2008-07-06. 

External links

• Dick Latessa at the Internet Broadway Database
• Dick Latessa at the Internet Movie Database
• TonyAwards.com Interview with Dick Latessa

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Name	Latessa, Dick
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Date of birth	September 15, 1929
Place of birth	Cleveland, Ohio USA
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